Situational awareness

[beyond_the_veil]

Okay, so here is my situation. I have been unemployed now for over a month and have been collecting unemployment of 106.00 a week for the past month. I have an overdrawn checking account of 133.00 due to my old job removing funds 17 days after the direct deposit was made, stating that I was overpaid. Fortunately, I have it knocked down to 83.00 and I have until the 2nd of December to get it back in the black. Rent is in three days. It is 400.00 a month, but my roommate is being very amicable about the whole situation and has offered to help with the situation. He has also offered to help with my transportation situation by offering his truck in order to expand my chances to find employment. My only means of transportation was my bike, but it got ripped off a week ago while using the library's computer doing job searches . The reason I laugh about this is the fact that the present situation is the same as ten years ago.

Anyway, with all of this going on I have a strange calm about the whole thing. For the most part, during my unemployment episode I have kept a pretty cool lid, although I did have a minor meltdown because I got caught up emotionally while thinking about my current lot in life while comparing it to my similar situation 10 years ago. I don't know if this calm is a mask of ambivalence or aloofness, or if it is genuine. My thoughts on about this whole ordeal is, "It is what it is". I can only do what I can do.

So, just yesterday I asked, "What do I need to know for now?" I received hexagram 5. I read it and then slept on it. Today I asked, "What is the purpose of my waiting?" I received hexagram 64. I asked one more question, "What must I do to best further my preparation for the coming time?" I received hexagram 35. Everyone with no changing lines.

Taken at face value, I feel like I am being told that I am in an incubation situation (5), while things are being put in place for a brand new experience (64). The last one kind of threw me off a bit. Perhaps Yi just ignored my question and finished out the sequence. What do you guys think.

 

[sooo]

If I was more thoughtful of particulars which repeat themselves, and to try to find what I can do differently during the coming cycle, I'd have broken some of these destructive cycles earlier and spared myself some grief.

It may be that this is why the time is not yet for your next cycle (no pun intended, but not saying there can't be a synchronicity link to the bi-cycle theft either). Maybe this time of waiting can be used to reconstruct your future in such a way as to prevent repeating this cycle again.

 

[beyond_the_veil]

You would not believe how much I am trying to search things out that do not benefit me. I am certainly a big bag of trouble. As a matter of fact, one question that I asked the I Ching was why it showed up in my life at the time that it did. I do not remember the hexagram per se, but basically it said that I really needed help. I wish that I could find that casting somewhere. I know that it was within the past 5 months since asking that question. Perhaps I could ask Yi again and see what answer is given.